Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BluntIsBlunt

:@[[User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93]], you've done behavioural investigations on this group before, does anything stand out to you about this account? Looks to me that the related edits are explainable by a shared interest in Telugu film but I don't have any solid context for how obscure these topics are. -- [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 18:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

:@[[User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93]], you've done behavioural investigations on this group before, does anything stand out to you about this account? Looks to me that the related edits are explainable by a shared interest in Telugu film but I don't have any solid context for how obscure these topics are. -- [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 18:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

::{{re|Asilvering}} The behavior is suspicious but not conclusive: there's more overlap than you'd expect in article-space, but the deleted text is different, and there's some tics that make me certain it's not the same individual. Whether it's the same UPE farm is harder to answer. The most likely explanation in my view is an independent set of editors working to promote subjects in the area of Telugu film - where one UPE farm exists, there's room for others. I would give this one the usual warnings about COI/PAID and then give them more rope. [[User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93]] ([[User talk:Vanamonde93|talk]]) 21:03, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

::{{re|Asilvering}} The behavior is suspicious but not conclusive: there's more overlap than you'd expect in article-space, but the deleted text is different, and there's some tics that make me certain it's not the same individual. Whether it's the same UPE farm is harder to answer. The most likely explanation in my view is an independent set of editors working to promote subjects in the area of Telugu film - where one UPE farm exists, there's room for others. I would give this one the usual warnings about COI/PAID and then give them more rope. [[User:Vanamonde93|Vanamonde93]] ([[User talk:Vanamonde93|talk]]) 21:03, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

* I think it may be easier to deal with disruption pertaining to this kind of farm by assessing it for notability (I think the topic is notable) and seeing if the writing is particularly promotional (it isn't) and whether prior versions look the same (they don't). [[WP:G4]] gets stuff cleared out of the mainspace at the end of the [[WP:AFD]] day about as well as [[WP:G5]] (and where necessary, page protected as a redirect since there is a clearly valid other target). It's also hard for me to countenance the description of "director of an award-winning film" as particularly undeserving of an article, but that's a discussion AFD could sort instead if they wanted and which would settle the topic for good in another way. [[User:Izno|Izno]] ([[User talk:Izno|talk]]) 04:30, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

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